Education

Ignacio Illán-Gala defends his doctoral thesis on frontotemporal degeneration

Tesis doctoral - Illán-Gala - Frontotemporal - Sant Pau Memory Unit - Barcelona

Today, Ignacio Illán-Gala has defended his Doctoral Thesis entitled “Pathophysiological and structural underpinnings of frontotemporal lobar degeneration: a multimodal biomarker study“, co-directed by Dr. Alberto Lleó and Dr. Juan Fortea. This exceptional work is the result of the investigation in frontotemporal degeneration from a clinical and physiopathological approach. In this thesis, Dr. Ignacio Illán-Gala has … Read moreIgnacio Illán-Gala defends his doctoral thesis on frontotemporal degeneration

Roser Ribosa defends her doctoral thesis on music therapy and cognitive rehabilitation in Parkinson’s

Tesi Doctoral Roser Ribosa - Musicoterapia - Rehabilitació cognitiva

Roser Ribosa has defended her doctoral thesis entitled “Non-pharmacological therapies in the rehabilitation of Parkinson’s disease: Comparison of music therapy and cognitive training” . This work has been directed by Dr. Javier Pagonabarraga and Dr. Jaume Kulisevsky, both researchers of the Movement Disorders Unit at Hospital de Sant Pau, and tutored by Dr. Carles Roig. … Read moreRoser Ribosa defends her doctoral thesis on music therapy and cognitive rehabilitation in Parkinson’s

Dr. Illán-Gala has been selected as an “Atlantic Fellow” in the GBHI program

GBHI - Global Brain Health Institute

Dr. Ignacio Illán-Gala has been selected as one of the “Atlantic Fellows” of the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) in 2019. The objective of this program, coordinated by the University of California San Francisco and Trinity College Dublin, is to promote brain health globally by training a network of future leaders in brain health. The … Read moreDr. Illán-Gala has been selected as an “Atlantic Fellow” in the GBHI program

María Carmona-Iragui receives the Doctoral Extraordinary Award

Premi extraordinari Maria Carmona

Dr. María Carmona-Iragui has recently received the Doctoral Thesis Extraordinary Award in Neuroscience for her work entitled: “Sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathy: beyond lobar intracerebral hemorrhage. Multimodal biomarker studies of atypical presentations”. Her work was co-directed by Dr. Rafael Blesa, Dr. Alberto Lleó and Dr. Juan Fortea, and deepened in the analysis of different forms of presentation … Read moreMaría Carmona-Iragui receives the Doctoral Extraordinary Award

Martí Colom-Cadena receives the Doctoral Thesis Extraordinary Award

Martí Colom-Cadena - Doctoral Thesis - Sant Pau Memory Unit - Alzheimer Research - Barcelona

Dr. Martí Colom-Cadena has received the Extraordinary Award for his doctoral thesis in Biomedicine entitled “Neuropathology of Lewy body diseases: confluence of multiple pathologies and role of synaptic phospho-alpha-synuclein“, defended at the University of Barcelona in June 2017. In his doctoral thesis, jointly directed by Dr. Alberto Lleó and Dr. Ellen Gelpí and tutored by … Read moreMartí Colom-Cadena receives the Doctoral Thesis Extraordinary Award

Dr. Oriol Dols has received the Doctoral School Ph.D. Special Award

Oriol Dols - Tesi Doctoral - Premi extraordinari

The Universitat Pompeu Fabra has granted the Doctoral School Ph.D. Special Award to the doctoral thesis in Biomedicine performed by Dr. Oriol Dols Icardo, entitled “Assessing the genetic overlap in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia”. This doctoral thesis was defended in December 2016. Dr. Oriol Dols Icardo investigated, through different genetic approximations (including second … Read moreDr. Oriol Dols has received the Doctoral School Ph.D. Special Award